Extension-table.



No. 676,878.V

Patented lune 25, I90I.

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EXTENSION TABLE.

(Application filed .Tuly 9 1900.) (un model.)

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UNITED STATES 9 OLIVER J. DroKEY, or INDEPENDENCE, Missousi.

EXTENSIO hln-TABLE.;

sr'nerrronrrolv forming part of Letters Patent No. 676,878, atea ruhe 25, 1901i.

, Application filed Jury 9, 1900.

,To ctZZ whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, OLIVER J. DIOKEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Independence,Jackson county, in the State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Extension-Table, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of extension-tables provided with a chamber wherein the leaves are stored when not in use; and my object is to produce a device of this character which is of ornamental appearance, easily extended or contracted, and of simple, strong, durable, and cheap construction.

With this object in view the invention consists in certain novel and peculiar features of construction and combinations of parts, as hereinafter described and claimed, and in order that the invention may be fully understood reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View of an extension-table embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a central cross-section of the same. Fig. 3 is a top planview of the table with the top and leaves omitted and with one end or section slightly withdrawn. Fig. 4 is a central longitudinal section. Fig. 5 is a detail plan view of one end of one of a pair of cross-bars hereinafter referred to.

In the said drawings, 1 l designate parallel side rails of the table, the saine being secured at their ends in right-angle recesses 2 in the upper ends of the corner-legs 3, and said rails are provided at their inner sides with dovetail grooves 4.

5 5 designate horizontal cross-bars at opposite ends of the table and secured to the corner-legs 3 and in the recesses 2 thereof, and said cross-bars 5 are cut away at their outer ends and inner sides, so as to produce notches 6, which provide for a longer movement of the sliding or end sections of the table, and said cross-bars are dished in their outer edges, as at 7, for a purpose which hereinafter appears. v

Oross-bars 8, provided with inwardly-projecting parallel ilanges 9, which constitute cleats, are secured to the under side of crossbars 5 at the inner side ofthe corner-legs, their ends being preferably flush with the outer side of the rails 1, and midway between sena No. 23,929. (E0 man.)

and parallel with said cleats is a double cleat secured at its opposite ends to the lower edges of rails 1, said cleat consisting of the bar 10, with outwardly-projecting flanges 11, which flanges, in conjunction with flanges 9,` form a support for sliding drawers 12,having grooves 13 engaging said flanges. These drawers may be withdrawn from under the table from either side, thereby permitting the table to be located against a wall or other point with the drawers always accessible.

14 designates the end rails for the body portion of the table, which rails are dished or provided with recesses 15 in their upper edges for convenience in placing the table-sections, hereinafter referred, to in or removing them from their storage position. Rails 14 are mounted on cross-bars 5 above cleats 8 and terminating short ofthe said rails 1 are connected with each other by the inner side rails 16, secured to the cross-bars 5 and arranged parallel with rails 1, and they are provided in their outer faces with dovetail grooves 17. (See Fig. 2.)

16@A designates the end legs of the table, said legs standing midway between the corner-legs when the table is arranged as shown in Fig. 1. The upper ends of said legs are provided with vertical notches 17ab and horizontal notches 18, the end rails 19 of the movable sections being secured rigidly in notches 17, with their upper edges in the same plane as the top of the legs and the rails l and 16 and the cross-bars 5 projecting into notches 18 in order that legs 1G may be brought sufficiently near together to stand in line with the contiguous corner-legs, as shown clearly in Figs. 1 and 3.

As it is necessary for the outer faces of the rails 19 to lie inward of the corresponding faces of the corner-legs in order to bring the end legs 16gd in line with the corner-legs, there will'be recesses in the outer face and inner corner of each corner-leg. This being undesirable, the end rails 19 are provided at their outer sides with the blocks or enlargements v 20, which completely lill said recesses, and therefore lie flush with the corresponding faces of the corner-legs, as shown clearly in Figs. 1 and 3.

Projecting inwardly from the end rails 19 are the sliding rails 21 and 23, parallel with IOO i.

each other and with rails 1 and 16 and fitting between said stationary rails, rails 21 being provided at their inner sides with dovetail tongues 22, engaging dovetail grooves 17, and rails 23, with dovetail tongues 24:, engaging grooves 4 of the rails 1, said rails 21 and 23 being provided at their free or unconnected ends with depending pins 25,which are adapted to strike against the inner edges of the notched ends 6 of cross-bars 5 to limit the eX- tensible movement `of the table, as will be readily understood.

The table-top proper comprises the top-sections 2G, secured rigidly upon rails 19, 27 designating a plurality of leaves, one or more of which are adapted as the ends or sections are drawn apart to be fitted between the top-sections 26 in the customary manner. When not in use, the leaves are placed together and rest upon the cross-bars 5 between rails 14E and 1.6 and in the storagefcompartment below the top-sections 26, the dishing of or recesses in the upper edge of cross-rails 14 permitting the operator to handle the leaves iitting snugly in place Without inconvenience.

The dishing of the outer edges of the crossbars 5 at points 7 permits the operator to pass his fingers under the end rail 19 near the center leg 16, so that the movable section can be drawn outward from the body, as indicated in Fig. 3. Vhen both such sections are drawn out, and with them the top-sections 26, it will be clear that the storage-compartment will be open at its top and the leaves 27 therein can be readily removed. These leaves normally lie longitudinally of the table; but when taken from the storage-compartment they are turned so as to lie across thetable and put in position, after which the end sections are pressed toward each other to close all cracks in the top inA the usual manner. The tops of the drawers 12 are therefore never open, for they are hidden by the leaves 27 l when in their storage-compartment, as well as by the same leaves when in place in the distended table.

From the above description it will be apparent that I have produced an extensiontable which embodies the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of invention.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 1. Anl extension-table having a body portion comprising side rails and end rails all xedly united with the corner-legs, horizonj tal cross-bars secured beneath said end rails and cut away at4 their ends on their inner lsides for the purpose set forth, inner side rails sliding in side the fixed side rails and connected in pairs by movable end rails, and

pins on the sliding side rails engaging ysaid cut-away portions of the crossbars.

2. An extension-table having a body portion comprising side rails and narrow end rails all iixedly united with the corner-legs, the end rails being dished in their upper edgesfor the purpose set forth, wide horizontal cross-bars standing beneath said end rails and OLIVER J. DICKEY.

lVitnesses:

H. C. RoDGnns, G. Y. THoRrE. 

